The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-01 00:00:00

~: MAR YLEBONE ELECTION. NOMINATION.-(TIIIS DAY.) The nomination of the candidates for the representation of this borough, took place to-day, on the hustings, Portland place. Some time before the hour appointed by the returning officer for the commencement of the proceedings, eleven o'clock, Messrs. Ewart and Colonel Thompson, the two Reform . can didates, appeared on the hustings, and were greeted with the most enthusiastic cheering. Upon Lord Teignmouth.inaking his appearance, the cheering was very partial. Upon the hustings we noticed Mr. Mackinnon, M. P., Mr. Vigors, M. P., and Mr. Hope, M. P. At eleven o'clock the crowd a-;sembled was but small, in consequence of the state of the weather, the rain pouring down in torr nits. The arrangement on the hustings for the admission of Reporters was extremely hid, and the greatest difficulty was experienced by them in obtaining ad mission. Indeed several of our own Reportei s were indebted to the kindness of Colonel Thompson for admission to the hustings. Among the different placards in the crowd were the following Working men of Marylebone, attend the hustings this day to support Colonel Thompson, and thereby rescue the Borough from Whin' and. Tory domination." " Teignmouth, the friend of the ' people, the Queen, and the Constitution." Tcignmouth for Marylebone." " Vote for Ewart, the friend of the People." " Mr. Ewart now speaking"—this placard caused considerable laugh ter. t , Vote for Ewart, the friend of the Repeal of the Corn Lawa and the Window Tax." " Re formers, beware—be united—vote for Mr. Ewart." " Re formers of Marylebone, remember while the lion and tiger fought, the fox stole the prize. Be united—the fox will be disappointed—vote for Ewart." The Returning Officer, Mr. Alderman LArmoN, did not arrive at the hustings till half-past eleven o'clock. When the precept—the Act against bribery and corruption were read, and the usual formalities had been gone through, The Worthy ALDERMAN came forward to address the Elec tors. He said that they were again called together to exer cise their electoral franchise, for the purpose of returning a sufficient and proper person to represent the Borough of Ma rylebone in Parliament, in the room of Sir Samuel Whalley. Ile trusted that they would give every person a fair and candid hearing while they expressed their sentiments, and that they would so conduct themselves as to set an example to their surrounding neighbours. —( Cheers. ) Mr. YoeNo the came forward to !tropes,: Colonel Thomp son. He appeared before them as an elector of the borough of Marylebone, for the .purpose of proposing Colonel Thompson—( Loud cheers)—as the most fit and proper person —(Cheers, and cries of " No, no !" and " Yes, yes 1") — to receive the support of their voices to-day and their votes at the polling-places to-morrow.—( Cheers.) In doing this, he would not disguise from the electors that he had a somewhat difficult task in comparing the merits of the two Reform Candidates that were in the field.—(Cheers.) In doing this he would not use expressions that would wound the feelings of Mr. Ewart or his friends. Ile would avoid any thing of that sort.—(Cheers.) Although he was not person ally acquainted with Mr. Ewart, of his private character, and worth no man entertained a higher opinion than himself. --(Cheers.) The electors were there to discharge and to ex ercise their rights, and to perform the duties of electors and freemen. Mr. Ewart had come before them as a candidate to represent the borough of Marylebone in Parliament, and his public character therefore was public property._ (Cheers.) Mr. Ewart knew too well the rights that belonged to the electors of Marylebone, to object to any fair and impar tial discussion of his claims to the notice of the electors of the borough.—( Cheers.) He supported Colonel Thompson on the present occasion—first, because he had a prior claim to the notice of the electors of the borough ; secondly, because he was a resident in the borough—(Cheers)—which was a fact that ought not to be left out of the consideration of the electors ; and thirdly, because there were peculiar consi derations why the electors of Marylebone should prefer Colonel Thompson to Mr. Ewart.—( Continued cheers.) Re felt himself peculiarly called upon to bear testimony to the facts that had come within his personal knowledge.— (Cheers.) Colonel Thompson, influenced by the most honourable motives, had retired at the last election.—( Great cheering)—in order to prevent a division in the Reform in terest.—( Cheers.) Colonel Thompson, believing if he had Stood the contest he would have created disunion, retired, when he found that that disunion was likely to take place. For having sacrificed his feelings in this manner, Colonel Thompson in his (Mr. Young's) opinion, was entitled to the votes and support of the electors of Marylebone.—( Cheers.) On an occasion like this, when it might be somewhat difficult to discriminate between the merits arid claims of the two can didates, they ought not to lay entirely out of their consideration the fact that Colonel Thompson was a resident in the borough and that Mr. Ewart belonged to Liverpool.—( Hear. ) Mr. E WART-That is a mistake. I do not live in Liverpool. Mr. YOUNG said that if Mr. Ewart did not live in Liverpool lie certainly did not live in Marylebone, arid he would submit that if a man resided among them, if he took an interest in their local affairs, and endeavoured on all occasions to perform the duties of a good neighbour, the electors were hound in such a ease as that to take those claims into their consideration.— (Hear, hear.) He would proceed now, with their permission, to allude to those political considerations which induced him tee pref er C o lonel Thompson as a Reform Cand i d ate to Mr. i' l Lwart, H e was delighted that Mr. Ewart was present to "' ar every word he had to say, and to explain any misrepre nlation he might make. It would pain no man more than I ftself if he misapprehended Mr. Ewart's sentiments, and no man was more anxious to be convinced of his error than he Was, It was well known in th at borou g h that the y known attached to their Local Elective Vestries ; it was well "own there was not a more blind attachment to a parochial and local institution. The people were attached to it as to a Principle, and they detested the p rinci p le of central p ower. 'a all courtesy he made the charge against Mr. Ewart °I having fallen into a grievous political error on the 'Ubjeet of the Poo r Law Amendment Act. —( Cheers.) He Charged Mr. Ewart with having declared himself the advocate belierinciple of centralizing power, which lie (Mr. Young) ,ed had the tendency to poison the springs of public Liberty a t their very source.—(Cheers, and cries of " Shame, tllame.") It was not him ( Mr. Youn g ) e who alone stated this, b ut pa ge 217 of the " Mirror of Parliament" also declared it— (Cries of Hear, hear") —and if Mr. Ewart had been mis represented, he was there to set the electors right ; but s° long a s Mr. Ewart entertained those opinions, and so long as the electors of Marylebone were at tached to the principle of local s elf- g overnment, Mr. -y , a art could not, and ought not, to expet - it their support in Coming forward to represent that borough.—( Cheers.) In a ddition to those circumstances, resolutions had been passed y the R e f ormers o f Hull, the place that Colonel Thompson f ormerly represented, and in one of those resolutions they de scribed the anxiety with which they looked on the Marylebone election. He had also a respectable requisition from the emi grant Poles in London, calling on the electors of Marylebone to supp ort C o l one l Th om p so n as the friend of public liberty , v ent only in his own country, but through out the Continent of Europe,. Mr. Ewart said that he came forward as an lade 11?odent candidate, but the electors of Marylebone knew that Ewart was supported by those who were not independent. '-(Cri es of ‘• Hear, hear," and hisses.) They all knew there :lets not a placeman in the borough, from the gentleman who ' l ied the high and dignified situation of registrar to the Tithe ornmissioners, down to every district registrar who was a placeman at pleasure under the present Government, that was tp , t . moved by some unknown extraordinary impulse to su pp ort 1 • Ewart.—( Hear.) What inference did the plain men r,Marylebone draw from this fact ? They were willing to sable Mr. Ewart himself was independent, but was it pos e to believe that the claim of gratitude alone would not in• tit le ° him to think of the parties who brought him into Parlia ment, and not the electors of Marylebone.—( Hear, hear, and cries of What have you got to say about the Tory L ord , i e• ignmouth?") He was asked what lie was going to say of ote id Teignmouth—he would tell them.—(Laughter.) As ,lieform ers they had nothing to do with Lord Teignmouth nut to treat him as they treated him last time (Great Cheering and laughter)—to heat him soundly, and send hen home.—( Rene wed laughter and cheers.) If they wished to give effect to Lord John Russell's declaration against all further Reform, he would advise them to return tire candidate Vflio was supported by Ministerial influence. If they wished to show Lord John Russell that the people of England repu diated the doctrine that the Reform Bill was final, he called °Pon the electors of Marylebone to vote for that candidate Who would go into Parliament supported only by the indepen dent electors.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that Mr. Ewart did not know the extent to which he would be shackled en ringil into the House of Commons as a Ministerial candidate. The electors of Marylebone were anxious and desirous • writing themselves down as her Majesty's Marylebone PPosition so long as Lord John Russ ell continued his de claration ag t ainst Reform.— ( Hear, h ear.) Thanking them for the kindness with which they had ~ heard him, he begged leave to propose Colonel Perronett Thompson as the m ost fit ofdof Parliament._-( person to represent them in the Commons House rarliament.—( Cheers. ) R 4 ". MURPHY then came forward to second the nomination. , e e v would give his reasons for the support which he should e to Colonel Thompson, in prefeience to Lord Teign ttnes°l4ll the Tory, or Mr. Ewart the Whig Radical.—( tu r and cheers.) The question was, whether they were to L augh woPP,ort shuffling principles of Reform, or principles which (c lud compel the Legislature to do justice to the people — (C heers.) As to Lord Teignmouth, they would leave him th e re they left him at the last election.—( Cheers.) During whole course of his (Mr. Murphy's) life, he had tv li,en struggling hard against the infamous faction with W"° , ll Lord Teignmouth had been connected, and which h ad e j e tantly raised the standard of despotism in opp osition to icjlehts of the people.—(Cheers.) There was nothing t o a e from his Lordship's false pretences—they would not be le e at ' d •—( Cheers.) Why, his Lordship had d a red to call Lord Teignmo u th.) an u nco mpromising Reformer.—( Hear , hear, from o " The Noble Lord dare not avow his real entirn n eillg—(" I do, I do," from Lord Teignmouth) -but tightti to delude the electors by calling himself a Coeserva that is he would preserve all thet was rotten and bad eule Constitution, and refuse to reform all abuses i n the b ri e u t r . ch or State..—((No, no, from Lord Tei g nirouth and his mien-stse-load ch ee ring.) He (Mr. ) did not knowee t iler the Noble Lord's being a L ord would a ve r y s t rong recommendation to the --na,elebone tl, m c ? l °.--( Laughter, and cheers.) Now he would come to W l !' real antagonist, the 'Whig-Radical , Mr. Ewart. The a ct : e l ga had been in power eight years, and what have they t for the people? What single measure of Reform had b ey brought forward for promoting the intermit of the work ellis classes— the industrious millions of the country ?--e Loud ac eerr .) This man, Liver William Ewart, bad, when Member at werpool, been a strong and firm supporter of that 2° P • rlsledn o r desp,,tis. which was brought in by the Whigs and by the Tories-010r, hear) } by Sir It, Pget in the House of Commons, and the Duke of Wellington in the Hotie of Lords.—(Cheers.) That new Poor-law, which tended to rob the people of their right to maintenance on the . soil of their birth, and to which they were as much entitled as the greatest Lord to his estates.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. Ewart said indeed, that he was opposed to the machinery of the new Poor-law Act, but Mr. Ewart did not understand IN hat that machinery was.—( Laughter.) Mr. Ewart said he was the advocate of local self-government in this borough. Did he not know that Paddington wasjoined to the Kensington Union, and that thus a part of the borough was under the govern ment of the Commissioners ?—( Loud cheers.) Mr. Ewart advocated the principles of the new Poor-law. Those princi ples were the principles of despotism—principles which would place every parish under the controul of three men, one of whom was Frankland Lewis, appointed by the Whigs, yet one of the rankest Tories in existence.—(Cheers.) Not only had Mr. Ewart supported the Whig Government in all their atrocious outrages upon the liberties of the people, but when lie went into the House of Commons he went there as an avowed supporter of the Whigs.—( Renewed cheerios%) Now, he (Mr. M.) would call the attention of the electors to some votes of Mr. Ewart, stated in a book published four years ago, and which Mr. Ewart would have an opportunity of explaining.—( Cheers.) He found that in the first Session of the Reformed Parliament, Mr. Tennyson moved a resolu tion that the House should bring in a Bill to repeal the :Sep tennial Act. How did Mr. Ewart vote on that occasion ? He hail it recorded there in the pamphlet before him, that he had voted against the Bill.—( Cries of " Shame.") Now, in the second Session ofthe Reform Parliament, Mr. Harvey moved an inquiry svith-the Pension List. How did Mr. Ewart vote on that occasion ? Mr. Ewart voted against any inquiry into the Pension List in 1834. Mr. Ewart was now become a Radical. He was one of that faction amongst the Whigs who knowing that the feeling of the country was opposed to the Tories, had determined to thrust himself forward, in the hope of saving the rotten and shuffling Government which had brought nothing but misery upon the land.—( Cheers.) They were aware that Lord John Russell had declared that there should be no more reform. Lord Melbourne had declared there should be no more reform.—( Groaning and hiss ing.) Who were supporting Mr. Ewart on the present occasion? All the hangers on of the Whig Govern ment. Hovenden, a parishioner, who had obtained a birth of 8001. per annum as a Tithe Commissioner ; Wilson, who had also got a birth ; Ivimey, and all the connections of the Whigs and the false Radicals were with Mr. Ewart. The contest was one between Whigs, Tories, and Radicals. ( A voice in the crowd, " Why don't you put the Radicals first ?"—Great laughter.) The Whigs were down—they were broken up.-- (Cheers.) The country had their eyes upon the present election, and the question to be determined was, whether they would have the Radicals in power or the Tories._ (Hear.) He called upon Mr. Ewart to show them a single instance in which the Whigs had honestly supported the Ra dicals.—( Loud cries of " Never.") The Radical were now determined to set up on their own account. They had raised the standard of radicalism, and for that purpose they called on them to support Col. Thompson, who had been always the honest and firm supporter of the people—who had never con nected himself with the base truckling, Whigs, and who had been a consistent supporter of the poor man's rights.—( Vehe ment cheering, and a cry of "How is Murphy's Almanac ?") Never mind Murphy's Almanac; lie had not time to ascertain whether it was right or wrong : but he knew this much that Murphy of St. Pancras was right in supporting the friend of the people.—( Cries of " Off, off," intermingled by cheers.) Tim man who was crying " Off, off," was doubtful whether the wet would do him good or harm ; but he (Mr. Murphy) would recommend him to go to Paddington, and he would find the sort of soup Mr. Evart gave the poor.—( Laughter.) If Mr. Ewart was honest in his declaration, why did he not stand up in his place in the House and protest against Pad dington being placed under the Poor-law Commissioners ? Why had he not supported Sir Samuel Whalley, when he and his parishioners thrust out the Poor-law Commissioners ? —(Hear, hear.) He would give them another history of the Whi g -Radicals. There was a Club in London called the Reform Club, and:in that Club there were Whigs and Whig Radicals. Six members of that Club voted at the last election for Lord Teignmouth, but not one of them voted for the Radical candidate. Two of its members plumped for Lord Teignmouth, and that club of Whigs and Whig Radicals mere willing to turn out the two men who had plumped for Lord Teignmouth, hut they would not turn out the other four who had split for Lord Teignmouth and a Whig. The ob ject of Mr. Ewart was to make the borough a nomination borough for the Tories and Whigs ; but if the electors did their duty on the present occasion, they would have two Radi cals to represent them in Parliament shortly.—( Loud cheer ing, and a cry of " Tory Murphy.") A Man had called out Tory Murphy, and lie should like that man to come forward, and show a:single instance in his political life in which he had not denounced both Whigs and Tories as two base factions who had been deluding the people. He called upon them to sup port the Radical Candidate, who would endeavour to effect a repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act. Mr. Ewart told them that he was the advocate for Household Suffrage, but was not the industrious working man who lived in lodgings as well qualified to vote as the man who happened to keep a house ? Did the possession of a house give a man intellect ? Let them look at Mr. Ewart, and it would answer the ques tion.—( Great laughter.) They had heard lately something about phrenology—let them examine the head of Col. Thompson when he came before them, and compare it with that of Mr. Ewart, and if any of them knew where the bump of duplicity was they would be sure to find it in Mr. Eivart's head.—(Loud laughter.) It was a subject of satisfaction to him to propose for their adoption a man who was the friend of all mankind, as he had Leen described by his late constituents at Ilull.—( Cries of He's a soldier.") Yes, he was a soldier, and one who had the courage in the House of Commons to move a resolution which would have had the effect of doing away with all the abuses in the Army—he was a man who had protested against flogging in the Army—who had voted against the impress ment of seamen—and who had honestly and zealously dis charged his duties, being in constant communication with his constituents, because he had nothing to conceal from them. He now told them to beware of the Tories—to beware of the Whigs—to beware of the sham-Radicals—to recollect his vote when he first went into Parliament. Mr. Ewart was a false deluder of the people—he was a man whom the Electors should reject, and with him reject Lord Teignmouth too.— ( Cheers.) Did they recollect the Calthorp-street affair ? Who did that but the Whigs, and Mr. Ewart supported them. The Dorchester labourers were the victims of Whig oppres sion.—( Cheers.) He hated both Tories and Whigs—down with both, and up with the Radicals. —( Immense cheering.) He begged now to second the nomination of Colonel Thomp son, an honest, firm, determined Radical and the supporter of the people's right.—(Great cheering. 11. 'l'. Hors, Esq., M. P. for Gloucester, appeared for the purpose of nominating as a candidate at this election Lord Teignmouth.—(Cheering and disapprobation.) In doing tlas —(Great interruption, which continued for several minutes ) He was sorry to he obliged to prolong the time—they might be more interested in hearing other speakers, but he would wait patiently until they heard the few words which he hail to say.—(Chaers. ) He certainly should not follow the ex ample of the speakers who had gone before him, in saying anything against the character of either of the rival Candidates, who solicited their suffrages in preference to Lord Teignmouth.—(Hear, hear.) He knew that in pro posing that Nobleman as a Caddidate for their suffrages— (Great uproar). Unless they gave him a patient hearing he should feel it his duty to detain them longer than he intended to do.—( Cries of "Go on.") hi proposing Lord Teign mouth as a Candidate for their suffrages, he felt confident that he was doing that which would be - a benefit to every lover of his country, and that the electors who would return him would confer a benefit on themselves which would never leave them.—(Groans.) When he told them that dur ing his whole life Lord Teignmouth had been a resident in this borough—that in every act of public duty—in every act of public charity—in every act where the benefit of his coun trymen and his fellow citizens was to be consulted, whether in masses or as individuals, that Noble Lord had always been foremost,—let the electors then return him to Parliament, and judge what his public acts would be, by what his private acts had been—words were nothing. They must judge of a man as they saw him ; and if they knew him to be a talented, indus trious man in the cause of the public, let them choose that man, and believe that he would do credit to them in Parlia ment. He pledged himself that Lord Teignmouth was such a man. If they returned him to-morrow, as he believed they would—( Cries of " No, no")—he pledged himself that the Noble Lord would do them credit—that they would always find him foremost in the cause of charity—always find him foremost in doing away the abuses of which they complained. lie felt confident that in spite of so many friends around him boing a little noisy, the greatest good humour would prevail F. this election, and above all things he felt certain that the independent electors of the borough would early to-morrow return Lord Teignmouth—would determine to submit to any domination, whether it came from parties having the names of liberty and reform in th e i r mout h s—or w h et h er i t came f rom other parties. He concluded by proposing, as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament, Lord Teignmouth.— ( Cheers and great confusion.) Mr. PAINTER seconded the nomination of Lord Teign mouth. After eulogising at some length the British Con stitution, Mr. Painter sa id t h at Lord Teignmouth came for ward as a resident in the borough as a candidate to represent them in Parliament. Attached as he was to the Consti tution of the land he would remove all proved abuses.— His life was passed . in philanth ro ph y an d b enevo l enc e. With regard to the opinions of hi s pol i t i cal opponents, h e would call the attention of the electors to them. Were their opponents not opposed to the second branch of the Legisla ture ?—(Clieers:) Would th e y- not overthrow that?— (Cheers, and cries of ‘‘ They des erve i t. " ) In stating that, he spoke particularly with reference to Mr. Ewart. Was he not for the overthrow of the Established Church ?—( Cheers.) B"atillnogt??----(( Cheers.) Would he Cheers, and cries of r \ i % o ' t o ü b l e d i n h e fa n v o o t u i r n o tr f o t d b u e c introduce o s t e e cr b e y t ~ We scan t that ")---If they adopted such a system as that what would they be called? Why, a nat i on of hypocrites and (leech ers.—( Cries of " Oh, oh.") Would be not strike at the laws of property, by voting for the abolition of the law of primogeniture ?—( Cheers.) Would . he not vote for the re (AC.g.rzitei3nstofall"suYeclis, plans s ; as these, t p h e e n i l r r o o f ; e t a l bad we want Load Teignmouth would give his uncompromising opposition. Corn-laws enou gh Ile would rafprm, but he would not revolutionise. Who, he would ask, would stadia most by the adoption of the diffe rent plans Ii statc,d ? Why - , the poor of the land,_ (Loud cries of " no,") The. electors I, ad now be fort them the different candidates, PO he had pp doubt that they would eaereise that good sense that fi aaglishmen sessed, and Would not he loci away by prejudices and faisa promises. He trusted that the eleotors would vote foe Lord Teignmouth, whose nomination he was most happy to second. iTtgo : M, P,, thep game foilv4rd t 9 Forgo Nl', THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, V-38. `:wart. He came forward upon the prenn. occasion to net farm the proudest duty that could devolve upon a British citizen, that of proposifig a candidate to represeat the all-populous and all-opulent borough of Marylebone in Parliament. For that purpose he submitted to the electors the name of Mr. Ewart.—(Great cheerin g .) In performing this pleasing duty he was more inclined to follow the example of the two gentlemen who had preceded him, than that of those who proposed the first candidate. He was more in. clined to dwell upon the merits of the candidate he proposed, than-to vituperate and cast obloquy on the candidate that op posed him. In his opinion it was setting but a bad example to adopt such a course.—( Cheering.) He would not cal: obloquy upon his opponents, but would much rather say they were all honourable men.—( Cheers.) Lord Teign mouth was a nobleman upon whose honour he Mr. Vigors could place every reliance. llis private character was above stain, and the best that they could do for him would be to restore him back to that private life of which he was the ornament. Of Colonel Thompson he must also state that he held him in every honour. There was no man und_e- whos: , Lanners he would be more willing to fight titan that of his lion. and Gallant Friend—( Cheers.) He (Mr. Vigors) had fought the battles of the people with Colonel Thompson, anti far was it from him to cast the slightest imputation upon one for whom he felt the highest respect anti the great est friendship. The only objection he had to the Gallant Colonel was with respect to the course that be was at the present moment pursuing. He (Mr. Vigors) felt, however, that Colonel Thompson had been misled.—( Cheers. ) lie hal made but one fault in the whole of his career, and that was in splitting the independent interests of the borough of Marylebane.--( Hear, and cheers.) having hinted at the only error that the Gallant Colonel had committed, h e would now leave him to the suffrages of the electors of the inde pendent borough of Marylebone, who would determine whether they would take up the man who had ever proved hi.nself the friend of the people, or him who had come forward most un justly to traduce his opponent. The supporters of Colonel Thompson had told the electors that Mr. Ewart had supported the Septennial Act. He (Mr. Vigors) would unhesitatingly declare that that assertion was totally without foundation.,._. (Cheers.) The fact was that Mr. Ewart had upon every occasion supported its repeal.—( Continued cheering.) The electors had been told that Mr. Ewart had supported the pre sent Government—that he was its creature—and that he was a base Whig.—( Cheers and hisses.) Now he (Mr. Vigors) would state that on no occasion whatever had Mr. Ewart supported the measures of the Whigs unless they were for the public good. Mr. Ewart stood in the enviable p3sition of a man pledged to no party—(Cheers)—neither to the Whigs or the Tories.—(Cheers.) He was a man al* had chosen neither of these parties, but who had espoused alone the party of the people. For the interest of the people he had devoted his energies, and ever would.—(Great cheering.) Mr. Mur phy had told the electors that Mr. Ewart was a Whig, and had always supported the Whigs. Why what was the fact? Was not Mr. Ewart an advocate for the vote by ballot? — (Cheers.) Was that a Whig measure? Had he in that shown that he is a Whig ?—( Cheers.) He has voted upon every occasion for the extension of the suffrage. Ile has voted not as Mr. Murphy has declared for mere household suffrage, but he has voted for every man who had a stake in the country. Were those the measures that the Whigs alone would follow, or were those the measures to prove him to be the friend and • adherent of the Whigs ?—(Cheers.) There was a time when the Whigs coerced the p eo pl e ; an d upon that occasion Mr. Ewart - firmly opposed them. Mr. Ewart was as independent of the Government as he was of the Tories. He belonged to no party—the only party he supported was that of the people.—(Cheers.) Mr. Ewart had been accused by Mr. Murphy of having voted against the Revision 'of the Pension List. Now, what was the fact ? Why, Mr. Ewart, every time that that subject had been brought forward had invariably vcted for its revi sion and an inquiry into it.—( Cries of the " Poor Law.") With respect to the Poor Laws,-he (Mr. Vigors) had opposed them in more than mere words; and when he told the elee- tors that there was no greater opponent of that measure than himself, and that he was perfectly satisfied with the part taken by Mr. Ewart, be thought the electors would think that the course Mr. Ewart had adopted was an extremely 'proper one. Cheers.) There was not a single obnoxious clause in that Bill that he would not pledge himself to prove Mr. Ewart had objected to.—( Great cheering.) They were happy in that their own borough to have the dis posal of their own Poor-laws, and they were happy that in the two great parishes of this borough they could govern them selves. Every sacrifice a man could make in sincerely op posing the Poor-law, he was perfectly satisfied Mr. Ewart had made ; in opposing it, in fact, in theory and practice, let theni look to Mr. Ewart's career from the first period of his political existence; let them look to those great and noble objects he had sought to effect ; let them them look to the sacrifices he had made in the cause of freedom. —( Cheers. ) Was there a single measure ever proposed for the good of the people of which Mr. Ewart had not been the sincere and dili gent advocate ? Had he not been the advocate of every mea sure that tended to enlighten mankind ? If there were but one act of Mr. Ewart's life on which he was able to rely, if they'would allow hint to do so, he would rely on the exertions Mr. Ewart had made for ameliorating the sanguinary code which pronounced sentence of death on his fellow-men. That one act of Mr. Ewart, on which he gave not merely his vote, but was the promoter of the measure, which he brought to maturity, and which lie trusted, by the aid of their suffrages, he would still have the epportunity of bringing to perfection— the amelioration of a sanguinary code—was sufficient to en title him to their honest suffrages. There was not a man who felt more for the people than Mr. Ewart. He would con clude by proposing to them William Ewart, Esq., as a fit and proper candidate to represent the borough of Marylebone in Parliament.—( Loud cheering, mingled with hisses from the friends of the opposing candidates.) Mr. WAYMOUTH came forward to second the nomination of Mr. Ewart. At this inclement season of the year he would occupy their time but for a few minutes. Time name of Mr. Ewart was identified with the great principles of Reform. On all occasions Mr. Ewart had supported those opinions which the electors of Marylebone thought of the most importance.—(Loud cheering.) Notwithstanding all that had been slid to the contrary, Mr. Ewart had voted for Triennial Par':iaments•—fur the extension of the Suffrage—and he had voted for that measure, which of all others was the most important, namely, the I3allot.—( Cheers. ) lie, therefore, called on the electors to give Mr. Ewart their votes. One objection made to Mr., Ewart was, that he was not a resident in the borough ;. but, if they would do him the honour to return hint as a member, he would soon become a silent.—( Cheers.) It was necessary to carry out the prin. c'ples of Reform ; the Tories were making every effort to re- Lin power; and it was the duty of the electors upon this occa. min to return a man sincerely attached to liberal principles, and he ( Mr. W.) recommended them to vote for Mr. E wart. —( Cheers and hisses.) Colonel THOMPSON then came forward. He was received with loud cheering. He commenced by saying—l am sorry it is such a bad day, for an election ought to be a poor man's holiday—( Cheers)—and I am sure many a poor man is here to support the principles of Reform.—( Cheers. ) Amid why should not the poor man support them ? Is it not the glory of our Constitution that it' not all, at least a large proportion of of our countrymen enjoy the right of t mking- a part in the legislation of the country?—( Cheers.) I'll be as brief as I can ; it shan't be through me that you get the rheuma tism.—( Laughter and cheers.) I will explain the circum stances under which I think it necessary to appear here. If there is any man in this country less entitled than another to an interference in his efforts to establish an honest electioneer.. ing interest, that man i 3 myself.—( Cheers.) Four times have I declined to interfere where there was a likelihood of my dividing the Liberal interests.—( Hear, hear, and continued cheering.) Once in this borough, as you all know—(Cheers)—twice in Scotland, at Dundee and Dun fermline.—(Cheers.) I was invited to stand against a Whig, with whom we were then in alliance, or thought we were ; and I refused ; for I did not think it hone: t, when I thought we were moving forward in one common cause with the Whigs, to take a course which might have brought in the op posite party ? What were the Whigs doing then ? At the moment that I was sacrificing my interests for theirs, they were determining that there shOuld be no fu. tiler progress in reform.—( Groans. ) I did .mylduty, have7they done theirs?— ( No, no, and cheers.) However it is no excuse for treachery that other men had misbehaved themselves. I was not treacherous.—( Cheers. )—but I think that in this last instance I ought not to have been treated in the way I have been.— ( Cheers.) Would it not have been decent if there were reasons, why after having first come forward for Marylebone, it was politic that I should give way for another. Why were they not explained to me ?—(Cheers.) I will tell you what occurred. Mr. Ewart, of whom I wish to speak with all pos sible respect, called upon me, as I might have done upon him, and asked me if I was going to stand for Marylebone. I said yes—l am pledged to do so, having been in the field at the last election. He replied, oh then, perhaps I ought not to have spoken to you.—( Hisses.) Well,now the thing was clear enough I needed no farther explanation, and from that time to the unfortunate meeting I shall presently advert to, I received no communication on that subject from that party. If they had come to me, and said you have sacrificed yourself four times, now sacrifice yourself a fifth, there might have been some reason in that. But what took place? Why a meeting was advertised at the Yorkshire S:ingo, which was called a "public meeting of Mr. E wart's friends," at which Colonel Thompson was invited to attend [the Gallant Colonel here read the adver tisement respecting this meeting from the Morning Advertiser and also the letter °limitation sent to him to attend the meet ing. from Mr. Love, which have been frequently referred to before.] I went to the meeting, as probably any one of you would have done under the circumstances, and I took two or three of my friends with me. The Chairman rose and said— " This is not a public meeting." Messrs. Ewart and Flume were standing by and heard what was said, and Mr. Hume s lid it was the error of a District Committee.—( Laughter. ) Nov of course District Committees ought to be abolished, and therefore up to this there was nothing to complain of. But after I had withdrawn Mr. Hume said he hoped all parties would be fairly and impartially heard. —( Renewed laughter. ) I could put into his hand a list of the parishioners who had been turned away, but they did more at this same meeting— they proceeded to a show of hands. The Newspapers which are not on our side declared that two or three hands were only held up for Colonel Thompson. Now how that happened without a show of hands taking place, I leave it for every one of you to judge.—(Loud laughter.) But they did mo re—the Newspapers announced that some unfortunate indisidual proposed three cheers for Colonel Thompson, which was received with bursts of laughter. Could we not Fts riN ch for their party, if wf.. 0 1005 v t tTlkt. 3 14 means's Th p reit* was, thpht 4 was Impossible any accpmmodation pould be come to in this dispute. Does it not strike you, if a ny accommodation can be made . , it moat be while the mind is cool, and before such circumstances havp arisen ? I hopo you will all be guiltless of stanching hero to make a (4vision in the Liberal cause.—( Cries of " We do.") I now come to another part of the subject. What had I done or left undone that sh3uld made my old associates in Parliament take cause against me ? • I had always been the opponent of what is technically called the patting on the back system.—( Laughter.) I always told the Radical minority they were throwing away the power in their hands by not employing it. If they had not weight in numbers they must make up for it in activity. If twenty-five Radicals would have threatened the Ministry that they would oppose them on any convenient occasion, on the penny stamp. for instance—there would have been no penny stamp now, and we might perhaps, have a newspaper on our side. But, Oh n)—it was said you will threaten the Ministry—trhat, vote on the same side as the 'Tories—this w is the bugbear thrown out —to that bugbear you owe the condition in which you now arc. Things are now strangely changed, but, have we not the merit of always predicting the mischief they would bring on. I have mentioned the chief difference between us. But there was another point on which I dif fered from many with whom I acted. The first question adced me on the hustings was my opinion of the Now Poor law.—( Cheers. ) I said that I conceived to take away the provision made by the law for the poor man, without pro ceeding toremove the restrictions which enhanced the price of the poor man's bread, was nn injustice which every man was bound to oppose.—( Hear, hear, awl cheers.) I voted with Mr. Fielding for inquiry, Mr. Evart, I believe, did not. If I am mistaken in this, however, he will tell me so. On that question it is easy to decide what he has done, and what I have done, by letting a balance sheet be taken. —( Cheers.) And now, Gentlemen, I will proceed to answer some objections made to me in public meetings. It has been urged against me that I absented my self from the second reading of the Church-rate question. Now, hear how the thing happened. Ministers had pur posely let down that question by refusing to intro duce the principle of justice into it. They never would support the proposition that Church-rates ought to be abolished.beeause they were unjust. They never went the way to do anything they professed to be in pursuit of. It did so happen that my constituents at Hull purposed the celebration of the birth-day of Princess Victoria. I wrote to them to say that the second reading was coming on on that day. I knew that they did not attribute much im portance to it, inasmuch as I was in the habit of com municating with my constituents twice a-week. They called a Committee, and decided that I should come. If this had taken place in Marylebone, would you not have expected me to do the same?—(Cries of " Yes.") What was that celebration for? It was on occasion of the birth of the Princess Victoria, now our Queen. To that I was sum moned to attend.--( A laugh.) A gentleman in the crowd laughs. He probably thinks I went to do some strange enor mity—so I'll tell him what I did. I went to dine with the Liberals of Hull and the neighbourhood, and when it came to , my turn to rise, I said—it is because I am a man who have uttered extreme opinions in the House of Commons, which opinions I will briCily state, that I present myself here. said, if I wes called upon to state the political section to which I did belong. I would say that I belonged to that party, very numerous I believe at the time of the revolution of IGSS, from which we date all our liberties—the party who might be called republicans under compact, meaning those who have no more doubt of the inherent excellence of repub lican institutions, than that a straight line is the nearest dis tance between two points—who did nevertheless consent to submit their own opinions to the opinions of the majority, to support the institutions the majority should choose, and I defied my hearers to state any instance in which they had failed in keeping their contract. 1 wished to show how frankly we submitted to the Governrrient of our future Queen, pledging myself that if times of danger should arise, and I confess I had my eyes on Hanover—(C'hecring)—l would be the first to prove that if she kept the contract she should enter into on rising to the Sovereignty, we were the men capable of keeping our own. I hear no laugh from the gentle men opposite now—l suspect that he is answered— ( Cheers.) There is more still of it, gentlemen. You may h a ve heard of a meeting at the Crown and Anchor on that very important subject the Canadian question. I said that in my opinion the conduct of the Ministry in seizing on the sup plies of the Canadians against the consent of the Represen live Assembly was an act of treason, for which the British people would punish them when they were able ; and I said, in confirmation, that history told us that the Sovereign of . England had once been brought to public trial and execution on that very question.—( Cheers. ) Is it true? Does any man deny it ? Has any man forgotten it ? Is all that our fathers did and suffered, and all the conquests they achieved, to be forgotten ? Never—never. I have always spoken my mind, and lam free to speak it here. With respect to cor poral punishment in the army, and impressment in the navy, I stated that corporeal punishment in the army was the bane and nuisance of every officer.—( Cheers.) Of impressment, too, I stated that the only reason why officers in the Navy would wish to maintain it was, that instead of making sailors they found it cheaper to steal them ready made.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) I will not detain you but by refer ring to the great change in political circumstances which has taken place within the last two or three days.—( Hear.) The Liverpool Itle;cury says, that my opponent the late Mem ber for Liverpool has been invited to stand for Wigan, and why does lie not go there ?—( Cheers. ) Besides an old Member (we believe Mr. Potter) is about to retire. Why does he ( Mr. Ewart)-not go and present himself to that gen tleman's constituents.—(Hear, hear.) Brothcr electors, I have now placed my case before you, and in your hands I leave it for decision. Lord TEIGNMOUTH then came forward amidst the most tumultuous uproar, groans, yells, cheers, Sze. In the balconies and windows of' some of the nearest houses in Port land-place there were a great many ladies who waved hand kerchiefs ; and if we could judge from the ehanff ' es of their features, seemed actually to cheer, as did the children and their maids from nursery windows, as if their voices could drown the uproar of the multitude. The Noble Lord was for a considerable time wholly inaudible, although we stood close by his side. When we at length were enabled, by the subsi dence of the din and the increased power of his voice to catch a word, he was saying—Gentlemen, I come before you as I came before you on former occasions. As a man who has resided amongst you from his c hildhood, and who is known amongst you for his deep felt—avowed and hereditary—ree•ard fur hi s country an d f or the Constitution in Church and b Stat .. ( Cheers and continued uproar.) Gentlemen, I glory in the title of a Reformer.—( Cheers, laughter, and groans, ) Gentlemen, I am opposed to those gentlemen who ad dressed you before me, and whom 1 proclaim to be--in consideration of the opinions which they have put forth—Revolutionists and not Reformers—who would undermine the Constitution in Church and State—who pre vent the reform of abuses, and subject this borough and the country to all the evils and miseries of civil war. Ido not impugn their motives—they are themselves deceived, and iti turn become dec,ivers.—( Indescribable tumult.) To-morrcw was the day.—( Cheers and laughte r .) El ectors of Maul,. bone, come forward as men, in defence of your country and its nob'e institutions.—(" Hear, hear," and great laughter.) Thank God, we have n o t got t h e Ballot. l yet amongst us.—( Groans, hisses, and prolonged confusion. ) —Come forward, electors of Marylebone, and ere sanset to morrow this borough will be independent, aad you will esta blish a reputation, which I hope in God you will never lose.— (Great laughter and groans.) The last election left, 1 fully of no t a particle rankling o r an i mos i ty assure you,in my heart. —( Cheers.) The reception which I met with through out this ver y arduous and most severe contest has been most encouraging. —( Hear, hear.) I never met anything amongst my brother electors to excite ill i n my breast, and if you do me th e h onour to elect me feeling it will be my study us well as my duty to promote the inte rests of the borough as well as of the whole country, without partiality or regard to the differences which for a while dis tract this borough. - -(ch eers . ) T o t h ose fr i ends who support me through this contest I owe gratitude throughout my life, and whilst I shall feel grateful to my friends, I will not re tain one particle of animosity towards my opponents.— (Cheers.) Come to the poll to-morrow, electors of Maryle bone, and do your duty. The Noble Lord then retired amidst groans, yells, hootings, mingled with a few faintly heard cheers. Mr. EIVIRT then presented himself, but was at first unable to proceed, owing to the yells of a portion of the crowd. Order having been in some degree restored, Mr. E wart said—Gentlemen, before I began to offer myself to your notice as a candidate for this borough, I stated that I stood forward on no personal grounds, but in the com mon ;public cause of Reform ; and I added, that if either of the other Reform candidates who were first put forward bad a greater prospect than myself of commanding a majority of your votes. I would not only. retire on behalf of the fa vourite candidate, but would assist bins by all the co-opera tion in my power.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, that statement I made before I met my Gallant Friend Colonel Thompson on the hustings this day. lagain state it in his presence—l assure him most cordially, and he knows me, I believe will take my word I again assure him cordially that if lie ( Colonel Thompsore) has a better prospect of success in leading the Liberal cause than have I will at once withdraw from the contest, and co operate on his behalf.—( Hear.) 13ut, Gentlemen, it appears to use that the persons most qualified according to reason, and according to the Constitution, to decide on this occasion, are the electors of Marylebone. It is the electors of Marylebone to whom alone I will consent to appeal. I will allow of no legerdemain between rival Candidates. The man who can command the greater" portion cf your support should per severe, and that man will be justified by the result. I WAS surprised to hear from the proposer and seconder of Colonel Thompson much attack on me—much attack on the Reform Candidate, and very little mention of the Tory Candidate. For my own part, I think we should combine against the com mon enemy, and not confine ourselves to personalities against those who adopt the same side of our cause. Mr. Young has done me the honour to notice some of my political proceed ings. Mr. Young has stated that Colonel Thompson had re cently had a' complimentary address made to him, if I under stood right, from the inhabitants of Hull. I know I stand with old constituents at Liverpool, as well as Colonel Thompson does with his ; and I believe they arc attached to me not only from political confidence but from the warmest feel ings of affection. —Cries of " Bravo, bravo.") Not only can I say this, but if the example of Hull is to be applied, it is only a fortnight since that a proposal was made to me, on the part of the peodie of Hull, that in case a vac a ncy o ccurred ther e , as they expected, I should be put up as the candidate of Hull.—( Loud Cheering.) j lien' it im puted to me here as a blame was honoured, as I deem it, by b e in e" . ` l '',ll; up t±p ft banclidate for Kilkenny, which `rosesoi the most independent constituencies in the three countries. I believe them to be so, and as a proof that they are, I will state that 1 was nut the man who was sup_ peeled by Mr. Daniel O'Connell. Mr. O'Connell supported anothq.gentlernan, the constituency of Kilkenny put me up. end I should have been returned if my lion, Friend Mr. flurne 4 ill W 11940 return 1 rejoice, had not had a just prece- donee of me. Mr. Young gave--unjusly gave—the high opi nion of various constituenci e s i n lab o ur o f C o lonel I , hompaon, I respect Colonel Thompson, a nd w hatever political casual 'collision takes place bet ween us , I kn o w he is still my and I entertain not a shadow of hostile feeling against him.—( Hear, hear.) But, Gentlemen, I am proud to say, that since I was rejected at Liverpool, not by the inhabitants of Liverpool, but by the wealthy men there, who rule the freemen. Since I was rejected .by those wealthy men, through their poor er i ns tr umen t s I h a d b e en invited to conic tOrward at no less than ten different places, where they expected a vacancy during this Parliament. —( Cheers.) I mention ths not uninvitede- Mr. Young ha; forced me to mention it., but I do it simply to show that a man who devotes his energies as honestly and as strenuously as he can iu the cause of his country, will not go u nrew ard e d bythat country.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Mr. Murphy has done me the -honour to make not only political but personal attacks on me. Gentlemen, in making those personal attacks I will not imitate the example of Mr. Mur phy.—(Cries of " Give it him—give it bins.") Mr. Murphy has ally led to the science of phrenology, and he wishes a man before he comes to the hustings to be measured as to his poli tical capacities by the shape of his skull.—( Laughter.) Now, gentlemen, whatever political developments he may' discover on my skull, I venture to state a phrenologiat would find on his a very large development of Combativeness—(Great laughter)—and I think that if the scientific phrenoloa gists pursued his inquiries into Mr. Murphy's pericra ntm, he would further find that there was silently and slowly but steadily developing itself the nascent organ of Toryism. (Renewed laughter and cheering, and cries of " that is right, give it to the Tory coal merchant.") So much, gen tlemen for Mr. - Murphy's personalities. I now proceed to his political objections. Mr. Murphy has come forward armed w.th some old book rummaged from the dusty records of his library, on which he seeks to charge me with having voted, against the repeal of the Septenial Act. Now I have le cen e n e L a tept of the constant voter in favour of the re p ea l o f act. There was a time gentlemen when t,e, publicationi votes of the House of Commons was not sanctioned by Par. liament. lam one of those who voted for the publication of the votes, and since that time the votes have been correctly gublished,--(Bear, hear.) Previous to that time they could not be relied on, and I dare say Mr. Murphy has found a mu tilated copy of a mutilated edition of the votes he refers to at that period. —( Hear, hear.) In the next place he says I voted against aAnquiry into the Pension List. I have voted for inquiries into the Pension List.—( Hear, and cheers.) And on one occasion, when there was an inquiry before a Committee of the House of Commons, because I could net vote in two ways, Mr. Murphy comes forward and charges me with opposing the inquiry into the Pension List.—(Cheers.) The third question is one of great interes to you and to me ► I mean the Poor-law Amendment Act. I now proceed fear lessly and unhesitatingly to speak to that question, as well as to every other.—(Cheers.) Mr. Young has done me the honour to cite a speech of mine, in which I vindicated the system of centralisation.-_( Much confusion.) Now it is a rule in a court of law, and Mr. Young, being a lawyer, must have known this, that where you cite a document you should cite the whole, and not a part of it.—(Cheers.) Now Gentlemen, if Mr. Young had cited a fair copy of what I said on the occasion he has referred to, he would have added that I also said, "If you make a sys tem of centralization to create uniform good government, you must not make that system lasting—( Hisses and cheers)_ and I added, also in the House of Commons. Do not make ycur Commissioners perpetual, make them temporary—giving them not a perpetuity in parish government, but only a lease hold interest.—(Cheers, mad cries of " You oppose the Poor law Bill.) Gentlemen, I oppose the undue controul of the Commissioners. I was the very man to do all that I could to shorten the duration of the Commission ; and if you will only consult my votes upon such odious measures, as plural voting, you will find I voted against them, and, Gentlemen, I will as soon as the Commission is expired —as soon as the Poor Law Commission has expired, I will main tain the restoration of the ancient representative parochial system of Great Britain.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, Mr. Young and Mr. Murphy have done me the honour of calling me a Whig. I know that you will not be led away by tnat, hut I am sure that they did not wish to deceive 'you. I trust, however, you will not be led away by any such meagre arguments.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, you know that I have stood in the House of Commons as an independent Member. You know that I have not backed the Whigs or their Whig measures.. You know that I have only supported them when their measures were popular.—( Cheers, and confusion.) Gentlemen, the records of Parliament arc before you, and those records will show that I have been the friend of civil and. religious liberty—(Cheers) —else my honoured friend Mr. Weymouth would not bo here to second m©; and I feel honoured by the support of such an independent man.— (Cheers.) Y ou k now t h at I have supported the personal ex tension of your rights ; you know that I have supported the I 3 aliot-4Cheers)—yo u know that I have supported triennial ' Parliaments, and you know what I have done for the political cease of the people—(Great cheering) —and you know, further, that I have been the steady and consistent friend of popular education—( Cheering) —and to that sacred cause I will adhere. —( Continued cheers.) I have adhered to it hitherto, against the Whigs and as well as the Tories, and to the extension of that sacred cause I will confine myself as long as I have voice to support or power to defend it.— (Great cheering.) Gentlemen, I have not been inattentive to the cause of the labouring classes. My fellow countrymen know, gentlemen, that many of the measures I have advocated have been mainly for their interests.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I was the man who introduced both againstsWhigs and Tories, a Bill to enable prisoners to be defended by Counsel. This was opposed by Whigs as well as Tories, and though I did not succeed in carrying that measure to the extent that I wished, yet I d.d succeed in establishing its p inciple.—( Cheers.) I moved for a Select Committee to encourage the extension of the Arts among the people, and in consequence of that we are having the Na tional Monumen.s, and Institutions of the people, thrown open . to the inhabitants, in order that they may enjoy those works of art which they have paid for, and I am happy to say that two institutions have sprung from the labours of that Committee.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, after your patience has been so long tried, I feel that it would be unkind in me to detain vou longer. I have elecady told you that I come forward invited by tho peat constituency of Marylebone.— (Cheers.) Unless I was supported by that constituency, I would not persevere. But lam convinced I have the s u pp or t of the majority of thone—( Increased cheering, and much confusion.) I believe I have the support of the majority of the constituency.—(Cheers, hisses, and groans, which tested for a considerable time. The noise was so great till the conclusion of Mr. Ewart's speech that it could not be clearly heard.) Nothing shall prevent me from going to the Cheers.) Let us he united against our common ene mies; the Tories.—( Cheers.) Let not the great metropolitan districts tall like recreants into the hands ofthe Tories. Above all, let not that which has ever been the stronghold, the fastness of Reform—the boroughs of Marylebone—be the first to set such an inglorious example—(Cheers) —but let us rally round the standard of Reform on Friday next, to defeat our common enemy the Tories.—(Tremendous cheers and groans.) - The Returning Officer then proceeded to take the show of hands ; for Colonel Thomps3n there were held up a great proportion of th o se p resen t • for Lord T e i gnmou th only about fifty hands appeared, but a il the ladies ;vho were looking out of the windows in Portland-place waved their handkerchiefs in favour of the Noble Lord. For Mr. Ewart by far the greatest show of hands appeared, and the Returning Officer declared the election to have fallen upon him. The announce ment was received with loud cheer jug from his friends, and with hisses ai:d groans from the opposite parties. A poll was then demanded on behalf of Lord Teignmouth by Mr. Painter ; and on behalf of Colonel Thomson by Mr. Murphy. The polling will commence to-morrow morning at Eight o' Clock. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Atheneum, March 1, 1838. SIR,—I shall feel obliged by your doing me the favour to insert in your Paper of this evening the explanation made by Mr. Hogg, M. P. for Beverley, of his attack upon me in the House of Commons, on Monday lag, and which appears in this morning's Chronicle, sent by Mr. Hogg. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE RENNIE. The following is the paragraph referred to:— ,' From the noise and bustle attendant upon the ballot ' for Election Committees, we were unable to collect at the time what fell from Mr. Hogg on Tuesday evening, on the subject of the Beverley petition. The Honourable Member said, that he had on the preceding evening made a statement founded upon a note addressed to him by the agent of his op ponent, and which he had read to the House. He said that Mr. Ronnie had since shown him two letters addressed to him by the same person, in which he (Mr. Hogg) and his colleague were accused of bribery, and in which various statements were made, that, if true, would afford ample ground for the pe tition. He said that he deemed it right to make this state ment in fairness to the House, and in justice to Mr. Rennie and Mr. Clay, whose names were connected with the Com mittee." GENERAL POST-OFFICE, March 1, One o'clock —The mails continue to be seriously impeded by the snow and defective state of the roads. A heavy fall took place on the 27th ult., between Dunchurch and Birmingham. It is also very deep in the north, especially in Yorrcshire, where on some lines no trace of the road remains. On the Western road the Mail-inspectors report the snow in some places to be nearly thirteen feet deep. Where there is no snow the roads are in a very rotten condition. Her Majesty visits Drury-lane Theatre this evening to see Mr. Charles Kean in Richard the Thi r d. " Lovu," by the Authoress of " The Divorced," Flirtation," &c.—Lady Charlotte Bury is certainly one of the most pleasing writers of the day. The heroine of this new story is one of those young ladies who possess the romantic idea that after they are joined in wedlock with the man of their choice, he ought and will continue to love them with umbated fervour, seek no society but theirs, care for - nothing but their pleasure, and over follow any pursuit pi: recreation without "Al va my lady his companion in them all. Such were the notions formed. of iiiarried life by Miss Chou, when she gave her hand to Lord Herbert, and- the manner in which they wart realised forms the principal feature of the plot of the stor y, so ably conceived and skilfully put together by Lady Charlotte Bury, under the title of Love.'—Caledonian Mercury, The Mail states that Lord Challeville will be elected a Representative Peer, vacant by the death of Lord Carrick, MAGAZINE DAY. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. " o!it er Twist" flags a little this month ; but as Homer sometimes nods, why should not Boz, more especially as he is " unused to the drowsy mold ?" The best portion of he p-escnt chapters is the description of the singing ;Isseruhly in the cite, where..a w:.ole host of burglars and pickpockets are represented as chaunting their flash Halle ,uj Ll:s. This sketch breathes of life. " Shakspeare Papers," contains a juil:cious criticism on Tonon of Athens. The freshness, vivacity, and novelty of Dr. Ma ginu's remarks on this liacknied theme, conErm th e t ru th o f an observation made many years since by Burke, that there is no subject that is not inexhaustible. regret ; however, to find the Doctor speaking disparaging4T of that tine Grei k satirist, Lucian, whose dialogue between the ,plenetie Menippus and Charon, about the ehoha which the, former nttenipts to do him out of, is as rich i n i ts h mori as his allusion to tl,e fair Helen of Tioy, i s int le hi n and unassuming in its moral pathot. Lucian is a wit, and thq prince of wits, whose smart and shrewd .as on th e polytheism of his day are far more ereetive than tiny of the deistical persiflage that we meet with in Voltaire's once highly popular tales. We consider Maginn's estimate of Timon's character the justest wo have yet met with. 'beside it. " Versaille s " i s a p l l la ea z s l a it u t t 's u , c ut t m s fr a very eete soae,rrjayfigu,:• suggested appar en tl y b y an article on tho §ame topic, in tl.e last Number of the Qaartdy Review. " Ode to Mr. Murphy" is too full of desperate bad puns. The subject, however, will make it popular, for never was sight so much talked of, as is the great Hibernian meteorologist just now. He is F, quibbed in every paper, criticised in every coterie ; and serves to fill up the dull, unsatisfactory hour before dinner at every formal party. All the Magazines this month are full of him. He is dished up in prose and verse, as though he were the richest and rarest dainty ever set before an om nivorous public. He is even sung in the streets, and we heard his praises the other day chaunted in Holborn by an Irish melodist, out at . elbows, to the tune of the Hundredth Psalm ! Verily, Mr. Murphy is a lucky prophet, and has just reversed the fate of' Cassandra. She predicted truly, and was disbelieved ; he predicts falsely, and is believed. The " Grand Juror" is an amusing notion, well, worked out. " Monosania" contains some lively, spirited description ; hut there is a constant straining after effect throughout the talc. This is a serious' blemish, for one's risible muscles always rebel, when an elaborate eriort is made to call them into play. An author's humour, to be successful, must ooze out easily. " Shawn Gow," is a lively fairy tale, worthy of Crofton Croke:, of whose manlier it reminds us. The Nurse's Story" is by Thomas Ingoldsby. The versification is singularly easy and flowing. We subjoin a passage : There's a hue and a cry through the County of Kent, And In chase of the cutthroats a Constable's sent But no one can tell the man which way they went. There 's a little Foot-page with that Constable goes. And a little pug.dog with a little pug nose. In Rochester town, At the sign of the Crown, Three shabby-genteel men are just sitting down, To a fat stubble-goose, with potatoes done brown, When a little Foot-page Rushes in, in a rage, Upsetting the apple-sauce, onions, and sage. That little Foot-page takes the ti:st by the throat, And a little pug dog takes the next by the coat, And a Constable seizes the one more remote; And fair rase-nobles, and broad inoidores, The Waiter pulls out of their pockets by scores, And the Boots and the Chambermaids run in and stare ; And the Constable says, with a dignified air, " You 're Wanted, Genlemen, one and all, For that 'ere precious lark at Tappington Hall I" FRA S ER' S 111,4 GA Z ENE. Dr. Magina's " Homeric Ballads" are continued in this Number. The:specimens of translation aro spirited, and singularly faithful ; but the article as a whole is heavy, because it is overlaid with learning, and useless references to musty worn-out authorities. The Doctor should have given us more matter of his own, and less of others. Who cares for quotations from, or opinions on, Voltaire's Hen riade—that poorest apology for an epic that ever was per petrated, even by a 131ackmore ? Voltaire was a sparkling wit and an ingenious sophist ; but as a poet, he can be spoken of in no higher terms of praise than as a dexterous versifyer. Ile knew something of every thing, but enough of nothing. Already his tragedies are in " the sere, the yellow leaf" of popularity, while as respects his " Henriade" —that work on which he so much plumed himself—it is dead, without hope of resurrection. " Half-a-crown's Worth of Cheap Knowledge" is an analysis of some of the minor. penny periodicals which are issuing, by thousands, week a - ter week, from the press. The notice is impartial in its tone, and seems to us to estimate these publications at their fitting value. "On Manners, Fashions, and Things in Ge neral," is a desultory paper without beginning, middle, or end—scratched off, curtente calamo, in a free, sportive, and good humoured spirit. The writer, alluding incidentally to Boulogne, states that he was much struck with the great number of pretty faces be saw there. We ourselves re member, a few years since, being struck with the same engaging spectacle. In the course of an hour's stroll through Boulogne, we saw more pretty women than we had ever seen before, even in Exeter, where the sight of an ugly female face is a positive rarity. " The Doctor" is horrid stuff. We suppose it is meant as a joke ; if so, the author should have informed us of this startliag fact at the commencement of his lucabraticns. The " Gallery of Literary Characters" contains a whimsical portrait of Sir William Molesworth, accompanied by a brief memoir, penned in a smart, good humoured, quiizical spirit. From Nimrod's entertaining article, entitled " Anatomy of Gaming," we quote an amusing anecdote ; and may add, that the paper is full of such pleasant, aneedotical remi niscences : " It occasionally, though rarely, happens, that hell-keepers become victims to their own infamous tricks. There is an amusing, instance on record. One of the fraternity had contrived to establish a gaiMag,table on the capital of two persons who had been simple enough to beconie his confederates; and by means of his dexterity a considerable sun\ had been won. Feigning urgent business at Bath, he boo'.;ed himself by is e mail ; and his partners saw him off, after being left in charge of the bank, with especial directions to announce to him, by post, the result of each night's play. The scounz:rel went no further than Brentford before lie left the coach, and returned to town ; and, by disguising his person to curls a degree as not to be knuwn by his partners, played for his own bank and broke it. The next night found him at Bath, where he received the " fatal news" from his conicierates ; and this was the consolation he gave them. He d—d them for a couple of flats, lin. having suflered themselves to be "done;" and, of course, cut their connexion. It is not here stated that this clever . Greek resorted to the dreadful operation of having a new and differently formed nose, made by a skilful surgeon— an operation of almost two hours' duration; but it is asserted that such has been the case in more than one instance. Spectacles, wigs, whiskers, and moustache, arc the most general methods cf disguise with these worthies." NEW MONTHLY. The " Genteel Pigeons" is one of Mr. Jerrold's most successful tales. It is caustic and vigorous, to t 1 degree not often met with in works of this nature. The story is that of a young newly-married couple, who, smitten with a love of gentility, sacrifice everything to this false pride—so in dicative of a weak understanding. The incidents are re lated with much dramatic skill ; indeed, we are not without a suspicion that the tale was originally written as a three act comedy ; for the scene of the cupboard—the hint of whi,di has evidently been suggested by the screen scene in the School for Scandal—is one peculiarly calculated for stage effect. " Memoirs of the late John Reeve "is from the pen of Mr. Leman Redo. It tells us quite as much as we care to know about this reckless comedian, who is already nearly, if not quite, forgotten. As a specimen of the lively manner in which the memoir is written, we select the following extracts : " Kean's name was the " open sesame" at all the houses near the theatres ; and crc Reeve came upon the stage he was apt to indulge much in the " little hours." He and his friends, lads of his own age, could not have got admission, but he knew the secret, and acted accordingly. After giving a mystic knock, he applied his mouth to the keyhole, and, with an exactitude of imitation that defied detection, exclaimed— °' 'Tis I—Kean—Edmund Kean !" In an instant the door was opened ; in glided John, saying, with an easy assurance, " Ned's just gone round the corner—back in a moment." At one time Reeve had a servant boy who certainly did, not attend to his toilet as carefully as he might. John was too late; a friend was on the fret beside him, and he vrs vainly attempting to shave himself with a razor which 'core some resemblance to a young saw. It might have br, e n ex pected that a man of his quick temperament would. ki,ve. flown into a furious passion. Net so; he turned cooly round, and said, in a tone of expostulation, " Dick, don't open any more oysters with toy razors." A " Discourse on . Tiores" is by Mr. Poole: The essay is sprightly, I;ut will not bear a comparison . with Miss Edgeworth% discourse on the same uninviting theme. " historical Recollections of Major Gahagan" are full of iieh drollery. We hope this series of ludicrous reminis cences will be continued. Captain Marryat's " Confessions of Ralph Restless" are but an indifferent substitute for his " Phantom Ship," which we do not find in t hi s N umber. " Gilbert Gurney" is as good as usu a l. f rom an unusual press of matter, we are compelled to be brief in our Maga zine notices this month ; or we should have gone more at, length into the merits of the present New Monthly, is an excellent Number,